By Ike Uchechukwu, CALABAR
A serving National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Member in Rivers State, Bright Ekong, has sacrificed his 10-months allowance as a scholarship to 12-year-old, Wealth Sokari, a JSS3 student, in his Place of Primary Assignment, PPA.
Bright Ekong who is serving (teaching) at Community Secondary School Degema, also took philanthropy as his pet project in a bid to give back to society.
Ekong who hails from Akwa Ibom state and a graduate of Pure Chemistry from the University of Calabar (UNICAL), pledged to pay the pupil’s school fees from Junior Secondary School 1 (JSS1) to Senior Secondary School 3 (SSS 3).
He called on the government to make funding of schools and educational development in the country, a priority.
The 25-year-old Corps Member noted that the government at all levels -was doing a wonderful job but needs to do more especially in the educational sector, adding that funding of…
